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John Gay Quotes
Best Quotes by John Gay (Top 10)
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
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Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
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Envy is a kind of praise.
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We only part to meet again.
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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
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Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
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When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction
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Can love be controll'd by advice?
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More John Gay Quotes
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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self
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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
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What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.
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One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.
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If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.
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Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.
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To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!
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Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
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